OSUtils

Along the same lines as fileutils, here's a proposal for some osutils:

<p:library xmlns:p="http://www.w3.org/ns/xproc"
    xmlns:cx="http://xmlcalabash.com/ns/extensions"
    xmlns:cxo="http://xmlcalabash.com/ns/extensions/osutils"
    xmlns:ml="http://xmlcalabash.com/ns/extensions/marklogic"
    xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">

<p:documentation xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<div>
<h1>OS utils Library</h1>
<h2>Version 1.0</h2>
<p>The steps defined in this library provide information about the
underlying operating system and its environment.
</p>
</div>
</p:documentation>

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<p:documentation xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<p>The <code>cxo:info</code> step returns information about the OS
on which the processor is running. It returns a <code>c:result</code> element
with attributes describing properties of the system. It <strong>should</strong>
include the following properties:</p>
<dl>
<dt>file-separator</dt>
<dd>The file separator; usually “/” on Unix, “\” on Windows.</dd>
<dt>path-separator</dt>
<dd>The path separator; usually “:” on Unix, “;” on Windows.</dd>
<dt>os-architecture</dt>
<dd>The operating system architecture, for example “i386”.</dd>
<dt>os-name</dt>
<dd>The name of the operating system, for example “Mac OS X”.</dd>
<dt>os-version</dt>
<dd>The version of the operating system, for example “10.5.6”.</dd>
<dt>cwd</dt>
<dd>The current working directory.</dd>
<dt>user-name</dt>
<dd>The login name of the effective user, for example “ndw”.</dd>
<dt>user-home</dt>
<dd>The home diretory of the effective user, for example “/home/ndw”.</dd>
</dl>
<p>The exact set of properties returned is implementation-dependent.</p>
</p:documentation>

<p:declare-step type="cxo:info">
  <p:output port="result"/>
</p:declare-step>

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<p:documentation xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<p>The <code>cxo:cwd</code> step returns a single <code>c:result</code>
containing the current working directory. On systems which have no
concept of a working directory, this step returns the empty sequence.
</p>
<p>(This step is exactly duplicates the <code>cwd</code> attribute on
the <code>c:result</code> from <code>cxo:info</code>; it's just for
convenience.)</p>
</p:documentation>

<p:declare-step type="cxo:cwd">
  <p:output port="result" sequence="true"/>
</p:declare-step>

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<p:documentation xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<p>The <code>cxo:env</code> step returns information about the environment.
It returns a <code>c:result</code> containing zero or more
<code>c:env</code> elements. Each <code>c:env</code> has
<code>name</code> and <code>value</code> attributes containing the name
and value of an environment variable.</p>
<p>On systems which nave no concept of an environment, this step returns
an empty <code>c:result</code>.</p>
</p:documentation>

<p:declare-step type="cxo:env">
  <p:output port="result"/>
</p:declare-step>

</p:library>

On XML Calabash, cxo:info returns somethign like this:

   <c:result xmlns:c="http://www.w3.org/ns/xproc-step"
             file-separator="/"
             path-separator=":"
             os-architecture="i386"
             os-name="Mac OS X"
             os-version="10.5.6"
             cwd="/projects/src/calabash"
             user-name="ndw"
             user-home="/Users/ndw"/>

and cxo:env returns:

   <c:result xmlns:c="http://www.w3.org/ns/xproc-step">
      <c:env name="LANG" value="en_US.UTF-8"/>
      <c:env name="EDITOR" value="emacs"/>
      <c:env name="Apple_PubSub_Socket_Render" value="/tmp/launch-yriAWk/Render"/>
      <c:env name="PWD" value="/projects/src/calabash"/>
      <c:env name="JAVA_ARCH" value="i386"/>
      <c:env name="LOGNAME" value="ndw"/>
      <c:env name="MAIL" value="/var/mail/ndw"/>
      <c:env name="COMMAND_MODE" value="unix2003"/>
      <c:env name="INFOPATH" value="/usr/local/info:/usr/info:/share/info"/>
      <c:env name="JAVA_MAIN_CLASS_556" value="com.xmlcalabash.drivers.Main"/>
      <c:env name="PDFLIBRESOURCE" value="/Users/ndw/.pdflib.upr"/>
      <c:env name="GNUS" value="/Applications/Gnus.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs"/>
      ...
   </c:result>

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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